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Stage III, the miners' strike and the February 1974 election

Following their success in 1972 the miners realized that despite the relative decline of the coal industry in the 1960s they held (1997) Stage III, the miners' strike and the February 1974 election. In: The Failure of the Heath Government. Palgrave Macmillan DOI Get price

Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914

The Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914 was a major strike affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan. The strike, organized by the Western Federation of Miners, was the first unionized strike within the Copper Country. It was called to achieve goals of shorter work days, higher wages, union recognition, and to maintain family mining groups. The strike lasted just over nine Get price

1984 MINERS STRIKE: EASINGTON COLLIERY

Tyne Tees Television library footage of picketing outside Easington Colliery in County Durham during the 1984 miners strike. Includes the demolition of a barricade that had been built across the colliery entrance. The film opens with shots of a group of policemen in Get price

Coal Miners on Strike

Coal Miners on Strike From the pages of the Militant Price: $7.00 List price: $7.00 Articles on the 111-day 1977–78 strike, the 1981 strike and contract rejection vote, the United Mine Workers and the fight against nuclear power, the fight for health benefits and Get price

Kentucky Miners Strike / Violence

Miners had barred entrance to mine to keep troopers from escorting nonunion workers inside. Troopers gather at mine today, but miners reduce number to limit of 6, so there's no trouble. However, miners say state police intervened on side of coal company [MINER - says state is against them, they've been harassed and are tired of it. Get price

UK miners' strike (1984–85)

Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates The miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures. It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board, a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by the British government of Prime Get price

MINERS STRIKE, PICKETS

On the 9th January the National Union of Miners (NUM) called a national strike in a pay dispute with Edward Heath's Conservative government, the first since 1926. Looking back, these raw fragments of news footage of pickets, police and strike breakers at Usworth Colliery in County Durham are strangely disquieting, since coal mines have now all but disappeared from the British landscape. Get price

Starmer exploited miners for votes

But from yesterday's performance it seems Starmer's interest in the miners these days is limited to using them to burnish his left-wing veneer during the leadership election campaign. Given Starmer's condemnation of Black Lives Matter campaigners last week, it seems that it's up to others such as Lavery to show real leadership and solidarity with the working class. Get price

The Third Millennium Online!

In 1906 he worked inside the miners union at Goldfield, Nevada. He was trusted by many union members in mining camps throughout the Northwest. May Arkwright Hutton, whose husband was the engineer on the dynamite express, wrote a book, The Coeur d'Alenes; or, A Tale of the Modern Inquisition in Idaho, about the treatment of the miners, and her husband, at the hands of the mine Get price

1984 MINERS STRIKE: EASINGTON COLLIERY

Tyne Tees Television library footage of picketing outside Easington Colliery in County Durham during the 1984 miners strike. Includes the demolition of a barricade that had been built across the colliery entrance. The film opens with shots of a group of policemen in Get price

Detailed Review Summary of The Enemies Within: The

Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Enemies Within: The Story of the Miners' Strike, 1984-5 When George Orwell wrote his science fiction dystopia in 1948, and made it a comment on British and world politics by reversing the last two digits--hence the title '1984'--he could not have known that the year would indeed be a turning point of great moment in British history. Get price

Report from the miners' strike in Tkibuli

Seeing their demands not leading to results, the miners went on strike a little over two weeks ago. About 1,000 people are employed in the mines. Two out of the four mines are still functioning: Dzidziguri and Mindeli. Now the parties are trying to negotiate, with Get price

From the miners' strike to the gig economy

2018/6/30Indeed in 1981, when she had not had time to prepare for a miners' strike, she retreated and conceded to miners' demands. But by 1984 coal stocks were high, the police had been trained in aggressive riot control techniques, and, after an election victory buoyed up by the Falklands war in 1983, she was ready for a confrontation with the miners. Get price

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The mineowners demand wage cuts, and in response the Miners' Federation of Great Britain calls on the Triple Alliance to engage in strike action and halt the movement of coal. On 15 April (Black Friday) the miners' strike is not supported by the other parties in the 'Triple Alliance', and the Alliance collapses. Get price

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Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914

The Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914 was a major strike affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan. The strike, organized by the Western Federation of Miners, was the first unionized strike within the Copper Country. It was called to achieve goals of shorter work days, higher wages, union recognition, and to maintain family mining groups. The strike lasted just over nine Get price

Tonypandy riots

The Miners Strike of 1910-11 was an attempt by miners and their families to improve wages and living conditions in severely deprived parts of South Wales, where wages had been kept deliberately low for many years by a cartel of mine owners. What became known as the Tonypandy riots[1] of 1910 and 1911 (sometimes collectively known as the Get price

The Lie Machine: Thatcher, Murdoch and The Miners

2018/2/21The attempt by The Sun to whip up a storm over Corbyn and the Czech spy is part of a long history of smear campaigning against the left in Britain. During the Miners Strike, the full weight of the establishment worked to undermine their cause. Back then, three Get price

UK miners' strike (1984–85)

The miners' strike of 1984-85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures. It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. (NCB), a government agency. Get price

Kentucky Miners Strike / Violence

Miners had barred entrance to mine to keep troopers from escorting nonunion workers inside. Troopers gather at mine today, but miners reduce number to limit of 6, so there's no trouble. However, miners say state police intervened on side of coal company [MINER - says state is against them, they've been harassed and are tired of it. Get price

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1926 MINERS STRIKE – Dorset Constabulary

On 12 th May the TUC called off the strike but the miners refused to accept this and over the next few months they stood firm and failed to return to the mines. In August there were several disturbances in South Wales in the Ferndale and Tylorstown areas where 47 men were charged with trying to Get price

From the miners' strike to the gig economy

2018/6/30Indeed in 1981, when she had not had time to prepare for a miners' strike, she retreated and conceded to miners' demands. But by 1984 coal stocks were high, the police had been trained in aggressive riot control techniques, and, after an election victory buoyed up by the Falklands war in 1983, she was ready for a confrontation with the miners. Get price